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Voter discontent will give the GOP control of the Senate, but Americans quickly will become as disenamored with a new cast on Capitol Hill. Paychecks are stagnant and health care and many other things too expensive, but Americans won’t accept

WASHINGTON (AP) — A ban on travel from West Africa might seem like a simple and smart response to the frightening Ebola outbreak there. It’s become a central demand of Republicans on Capitol Hill and some Democrats, and is popular

President Obama personally called the House Appropriations Committee Chairman at 5:00pm Tuesday to request congressional authorization to arm Syrian rebels, prompting a scramble on Capitol Hill to digest the proposed policy change and decide how to bring it up for

California-based ridesharing company Uber has enlisted former Obama campaign manager and senior adviser David Plouffe to guide the company’s “political campaign” as their new senior vice president of policy and strategy. Plouffe will reportedly be taking direct aim at the

A special memorial to gay military veterans is scheduled to be placed in the “gay corner” of the Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill. Cemetery president Paul K. Williams said the stone memorial will be near “the ‘gay corner,’ thought to

Editor’s Note : National Review’s Eliana Johnson documents the key role played by Senator Jeff Sessions in the epic immigration debate of the past several months. We reprint here. A Masters of the Universe drawing hangs in a frame above the

After a controversy over the large number of sometimes capricious edits of Wikipedia pages made from computers inside the network of the House of Representatives, the crowd-sourced, online encyclopedia placed a temporary, 10-day ban on an IP address emanating from

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) dismissed news that conservative radio host Laura Ingraham had endorsed his primary opponent Joe Carr and planned to campaign on his behalf. When asked by reporters about Ingraham’s endorsement on Capitol Hill this morning, Alexander reminded

From The Washington Free Beacon: The terror group Hamas has begun deploying against Israel advanced long-range missiles provided to the militant group by Iran, forcing the Israeli military to specifically target these weapons caches in air strikes, according to Israel’s

JACKSON, Mississippi — When a super PAC supporting Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) came under scrutiny for receiving what appeared to be an unsecured loan for $250,000, the bank that issued the loan came to Cochran’s rescue, publishing a high-profile letter

As IRS commissioner John Koskinen sat on Capitol Hill belatedly informing a Congressional committee of the “disappearance” of years of email communications from a host of IRS employees under investigation–including Lois Lerner–it was discovered that the IRS had hired an

The first rule of leadership races, it’s often said among the few people who have experience waging power struggles at the top of the congressional food chain in the most powerful country on earth, is that he who who gets

Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, the doctor made a TV star by Oprah Winfrey, wasn’t a big hit on Capitol Hill when Senators questioned his claims about certain weight loss products that could produce “miracle” results. On June 17, Dr. Oz

Most news watchers are familiar with the Friday afternoon document dumps, but the IRS seems to have gone one step further. Buried in a letter on another topic they revealed that two years worth of Lois Lerner’s emails are gone,

Soon-to-be former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was not just reportedly unavailable to the constituents in his own district, Cantor made himself reliably unavailable to Capitol Hill reporters when his staff stopped his weekly pen and pad pressers with reporters

As the shocking news last night of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor losing his primary traveled like lightning around Capitol Hill, pretty much everyone was taken by surprise. After all, since the inception of the position of Majority Leader, no

Senators on Capitol Hill agreed that although Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is reportedly scheduled for another promotion, questions need to be answered about his disappearance. “Obviously, we all think there should be an investigation when he returns, and that’s what the

Tuesday on the Tea Party News Network’s “The Capitol Hill Show with Tim Constantine,” former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) called for articles of impeachment to be brought against President Barack Obama for negotiating with the Taliban, a “non-state, non-uniform terrorist

Sen. Thad Cochran’s longtime executive assistant was listed as being part of a “spouse group” and photographed participating in recreational events for senators’ spouses on a taxpayer-funded trip in 2004 to South America. In captions to photos posted online by

Sen. Thad Cochran’s longtime executive assistant, Kay Webber, frequently rents the first floor of the stately Capitol Hill house she owns as a venue for fundraisers, including to Cochran’s campaign. But a high-profile conservative attorney and a leading congressional watchdog

Two hundred fifty left-wing Evangelicals, part of a coalition that calls itself the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), swarmed Capitol Hill last week to lobby an estimated 100 Republican Congressmen in support of amnesty for illegal aliens.  A year ago, the same

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) repeatedly listed a Washington, D.C. house owned by his executive assistant as his address on a series of official documents in recent years, including several of his statements of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission. Cochran

The godfather of Mississippi’s largest and most powerful industry – one that has longed push for more lenient immigration law’s to help provide cheap labor – is Sen. Thad Cochran’s fundraising chairman, the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro writes in a

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, found another reason to shed tears on Tuesday, this time to acknowledge the generosity of the Taco Bell Foundation’s gift of $30 million to help adolescents successfully graduate from high school. The event on Capitol

Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald urged his team on Saturday to vote against forming a union later this month.  “I believe it’s in their best interests to vote no,” Fitzgerald said on Saturday, according to ESPN. “With the research that

With the Veterans Administration (VA) about to face hearings on Capitol Hill regarding preventable deaths in their system, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) released a report exposing the VA ha secretly paid $200 million to settle nearly 1,000 wrongful

Labor unions seek to organize Northwestern, Duke, and Stanford athletes the way they once organized Flint, Gary, and Paterson workers. Who could possibly object?   “Face it: The jig is up,” William C. Rhoden declares in the New York Times.

As the debate over a $9 billion, five-month unemployment insurance extension heats up on Capitol Hill, a new study by President Barack Obama’s former Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Alan Krueger, finds that just one in

How desperate are Democrats to sell Obamacare? So desperate that they’re adopting the Tea Party’s beloved symbol, the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, to sell it, as per this tweet by Democrat strategist Christine Pelosi (yes, that Pelosi family).

Thursday Rep. John Lewis (D-GA.) danced to Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” in honor of International Day of Happiness. His staff member Rachelle O’Neil, posted the clip on YouTube… Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

On Tuesday evening, Loyola University of Chicago became the first Catholic institution, and the first from the state of Illinois, whose student government has passed an anti-Israel divestment resolution.  The resolution, which a source says was not announced in advance,

The David Webb Show will broadcast Live from the Breitbart Embassy on Capitol Hill the annual Breitbart CPAC party. The David Webb Show on Sirius XM 125 The Patriot Channel will broadcast live tonight from 9pm to midnight EST. Breitbart

TEXAS–Tea party and conservative advocacy groups targeted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) registered great frustration with former official Lois Lerner as she continued to remain silent on Capitol Hill today. “We just want the truth about what Ms. Lerner

In an effort to emphasize tougher border security, Texas Congressman Lamar Smith recently formed the Border Security Caucus on Capitol Hill. Rep. Smith, a vehement opponent of the Democrats’ immigration policy changes, said, “Unfortunately, President Obama has weakened immigration laws through executive orders

Twenty years after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), President Barack Obama is set to cut a deal with Mexico’s president to ease border restrictions for “trusted” travelers.  The agreement, which is expected to be announced on Wednesday, will